An Introduction to Wikidata

An Introduction to Wikidata

Describes Wikidata, a "free and open knowledge base" which houses the data formerly located at Google's Freebase. Discusses how Wikidata is well-placed to solve data provenance issues on the Web, such as those currently faced by Google's Knowledge Graph. Wikidata is machine-readable, open source, and multilingual. In addition, it assigns unique identifiers to resources and describes those resources using statements.